A tower crane collapsed last night in Bellevue, Seattle, killing a person in an apartment building.
17.11.2006
A train struck a boom lift near Melbourne Australia on Friday throwing the operator out of the basket, seriously injuring him.
29.10.2006
More details are emerging on the tragic crane accident in London last night.
27.09.2006
A crane driver and a bystander were killed this evening when a tower crane collapsed on a block of houses in London.
26.09.2006
A 51 year old safety inspector was killed on Friday while carrying out an annual inspection on a steam railway crane at the Bodmin and Wenford railway in the UK.
29.08.2006
A Liebherr MK100 belonging to BTB Logistiks of Berlin came down overnight crushing a number of luxury cars.
11.08.2006
Surrey-based Gleeson Construction Services Ltd has been fined almost £50,000 after mortar tubs fell from a crane injuring a worker below.
31.07.2006
Severe storms in Florida broke a lattice crane boom in two yesterday in Coral Gables Florida.
28.06.2006
In at least the second time in less than two weeks, a man painting the underside of a bridge was thrown to his death after his truck mounted lift was struck by a passing vehicle.
20.06.2006
Yet another man has died through not wearing a harness in a boom lift, while a second man is seriously injured.
16.05.2006
A man was killed yesterday on the A1306 when a 30 tonne bridge section was dropped by a crane.
10.04.2006
Otis Lifts was fined £400,000 plus £145,000 costs after two employees fell down a lift shaft to their deaths.
07.04.2006
Teupen has informed its customers that the Leo 50, has been cleared to go back to work, following an order it issued at the end of last week to immediately withdraw them from service.
31.03.2006
A Coroner in Tasmania has called for tractor cranes to be recalled and fitted with extra indication equipment, following the death of a rigger.
23.01.2006
An employee at the JCB plant in Cheadle Staffordshire, was killed in an accident at the facility last week.
20.11.2005
Seven men were killed and three are still missing, while 10 others were injured, when a gantry crane collapsed during a lift on the second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge on the Mekong River.
24.07.2005
Four companies have been fined a total of £90,000 in the UK for a fataility that occurred during the loading of "off hired" rental equipment
07.04.2005
A tower crane collapsed on a job site at Durrington High School in Worthing, West Sussex, at around 10:30 am this morning killing two workmen.
11.02.2005
A 210ft (70 metre) dock crane collapsed yesterday onto the deck of HMS Invincible in Portsmouth naval base. The load that broke the crane? A Mobile Elevating Work Platform!
10.11.2004
Three construction companies have today been fined a total of £100,000 for the death of a worker due to the lack of guardrailing on a scaffold on the channel Tunnel rail link.
05.10.2004
Two Kent engineers, who were injured when a German-made 100 tonne capacity Kirow 810(UK) rail-mounted crane toppled over at Clapham Junction in January, are to sue the crane’s owner Balfour Beatty Rail.
14.06.2004
A man has died on the New Welsh Assembly building site after falling three metres from a ladder.
16.03.2004
A man fell almost 10 metres when the "crane", or most likely a forklift or telehandler, he was working from, toppled over.
04.03.2004
Ireland's HSA is investigating a fatal incident involving “heavy mobile lifting equipment” at the ESB power plant in Shannonbridge, County Offaly yesterday
04.02.2004
